optimism: a cautionary tale

almost lost

our computer crashed a couple of weeks ago.  this may not seem at all momentous, but in the years since our dear (and supremely generous) friends carlee and bryan gave it to us, our little imac has accumulated years of music, joel's poetry, and of course all of eliot and ezra's baby pictures. i heard about a study just last week that seemed to prove that optimistic people tend to have shorter life spans because they live as if nothing will go drastically wrong, and therefore take greater risks.  sky diving? sounds fun! smoking? i probably won't get cancer! back up my computer? why bother? (yes, they used the computer thing as an example). apparently one doesn't need a sunny disposition in order to be an optimist because joel and i have never backed up our computer.  

found

you may have guessed that there is a happy ending to this story.  we took our precious memories -entombed as they were in our stylish though non-functioning mac - down to old town computers and a lovely little hipster-geek performed a miracle on our motherboard.  i suppose the moral of the story is to take special care of that which you hold close to your heart (even if it means backing up your hard drive) and perhaps you'd be better off if that glass in your hand wasn't half-full.  with love and caution: j